NDIS drivers in mainline? NEVER
NDIS drivers in mainline? NEVER
Posted Mar 6, 2008 23:35 UTC (Thu) by hmh (subscriber, #3838)In reply to: As long as the proprietary Windows driver ist not DISTRIBUTED... by NRArnot
Parent article: NDISwrapper dodges another bullet
Err, it is worth noticing that refusal to merge crap in the kernel happens all the time. There is no way any NDIS driver would ever be merged, AFAIK, and the reasons for this are simple: An NDIS driver would be slower, more difficult to maintain, far more complex (you have to take into account the entire NDIS wrapper too!), and IMHO just downright nastier to look at than it would be had it used the native APIs in the first place. So I am afraid an NDIS-lover will have to find another way to equal himself to the people who mark symbols GPL-only for political reasons (as opposed to technical reasons).